Hinrich Lohse

Hinrich Lohse (2 September 1896-25 February 1964) was Reichskomissar of Reichskomissariat Ostland under Nazi Germany from 17 July 1941 to 26 September 1944, preceding Erich Koch.

Biography
Hinrich Lohse was born on 2 September 1896 in Muhlenbarbek, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He served in World War I, and he joined the Nazi Party in 1923; in 1933, he was appointed Oberpraesident of Schleswig-Holstein under Nazi Germany. On 17 July 1941, he was given the title of Reichskomissar of Reichskomissariat Ostland, overseeing the effort to kill almost all of the Jews, Romani, and communists in the region during the Holocaust alongside Hans-Adolf Pruetzmann. Lohse and Alfred Rosenberg wanted the killings to be limited and the undesirables to be used for slave labor, and they ultimately defeated Pruetzmann's idea of massacring all of the undesirable groups quickly. On 6 May 1945, he was captured by the British Army in Schleswig-Holstein and was sentenced to ten years in prison, but he was released in 1951. He died in 1964 in Muhlenbarbek.